We were driving home from the grocery store shortly before bedtime. Ellie, who'd already proven herself super tired by falling asleep on the five minute drive to the grocery store, was starting quietly out her car window when she quietly asked, "Why is the sun going down?"
"Well," Greg answered, "It's getting ready to go to bed. Just like how Annie and Ellie and Isaac and Mommy and Daddy are tired and need to sleep when we get home."
"Especially Mommy and Daddy," I added.
It was quiet for a minute as Ellie thought about the tired sun getting ready to go to sleep for the night. Then Annie suddenly adds from the backseat, all knowingly, "The moon is nocturnal."
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So I'm impressed that Annie knows a word like 'nocturnal' and curious if Greg corrected her, since something that sleeps at night is NOT nocturnal . . . :)
She was saying the moon was awake at night, so she was right with nocturnal -- but Greg did still correct her, since he started explaining that the moon is ALWAYS out, it doesn't just come out at night, it's out during the day we just don't see it . . . I shushed him though, who wants to get into all that with a five year old ten minutes before bedtime! :-)
She is going to blow her kindergarten teacher's mind!
Oops, my bad. I was thinking sun not moon. That's right, Annie is far smarter than I am.
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